RTS student masterclasses

RTS Student Craft Masterclasses 2020 | Cinematography

Watch the Cinematography Masterclass on below.

Georgina Kiedrowski, Self-Shooting Producer (The Island, Race Across the World), and Nicola Daley, Director of Photography, ACS (The Letdown, Harlots) will share their knowledge and experiences of working in the camera department on documentaries, dramas and factual entertainment for shows such as The Island with Bear Grylls, Race Across the World, Harlots and The Letdown.

 

RTS Masterclasses 2019

RTS Craft Skills Masterclasses 2019

Editing

Editors Emma Lysaght and Matthew Gray spoke about how they had each worked with distinguished programme-­makers, Louis Theroux and Shane Meadows, respectively.

Lysaght, a documentary specialist, worked on Louis Theroux’s Altered States: Choosing Death, in which terminally ill people prepared to take their own lives.

Camera masterclass with Sara Deane and Mike Robinson

Mike Robinson and Sara Deane (Credit: Paul Hampartsoumian)

Training: Sara Deane was a member of the Children’s Film Unit, before studying at Bournemouth Film School: “I was a clapper loader [second assistant camera] for five years and … [during that time] still shooting shorts because I knew I waned to be a director of photography. I [then studied at] the National Film and Television School and graduated about 10 years ago.”

Sound masterclass with Matt Bacon and Kate Davis

Matt Bacon and Kate Davis (Credit: Paul Hampartsoumian)

Davis received a Bafta nomination this year for her work on the BBC Four documentary Amy Winehouse: Back to Black. Bacon specialises in formatted and entertainment series such as Channel 5 reality show The Bachelor and the BBC’s Masterchef.

Editing masterclass with Emma Lysaght and Matthew Gray

Matthew Gray and Emma Lysaght (Credit: Paul Hampartsoumian)

How to get into editing: Emma Lysaght: “I left school at 16. My father was a film editor so I grew up watching my dad cut film. It was something I’d always wanted to do.

“It was quite a male environment, I was very nervous and very shy. I didn’t get into the cutting room until I was 19. My dad knew of one female editor.

“She needed an assistant so I stepped in and became her assistant. Within the first few months I was cutting news for Channel 4, which was very pressurised but you know exactly what you’ve got to do in those three minutes.